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H. Couchman
(1839 - 1907)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 59th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America in 1858 and on 7 August 1861, then age 22, enlisted in New York City. He mustered as Corporal in Company C, 59th New York Infantry on 20 August, transferred to Company D on 1 November, and was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the neck (and/or face) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in the Old Episcopal Church in Frederick, MD on 1 October 1862 and was discharged for disability there on 5 January 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was a laborer in Jersey City, NJ and in 1880 was a "meter maker" there. In 1900, then age 62, he was still working in Jersey City, a machinist.
References & notes
His service from the State of New York.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and a casualty list in the New York Herald of 24 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900; his birth also seen in November 1838. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph contributed by descendant Misty Schulz and hosted on her blog Once Upon A Lifetime by MaryAnne Slabik-Haffner.
He married Ellen Nagle (1848-) in March 1870 and they had 11 children.
Birth
11/13/1839; London (Middlesex), ENGLAND
Death
06/15/1907; Jersey City, NJ; burial in Holy Name Cemetery and Mausoleum, Jersey City, NJ
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 26 (for the year 1900), p. 415 [AotW citation 8689]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #165 [AotW citation 30609]